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 What is BorgBackup?
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 BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program.
 Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.
 
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 .. _installation manual: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/installation.html
 
 Main features
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 **Space efficient storage**
   Deduplication based on content-defined chunking is used to reduce the number
   of bytes stored: each file is split into a number of variable length chunks
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 Easy to use
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 Initialize a new backup repository and create a backup archive::
 
     $ borg init /mnt/backup
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 `BorgWeb <https://github.com/borgbackup/borgweb>`_.
 
 Links
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  * `Main Web Site <https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/>`_
  * `Releases <https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases>`_